Senate Bill No. 119–Senator Shaffer

 

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AN ACT relating to taxicabs; requiring the taxicab authority to establish a program for the transportation by taxicab of elderly persons and permanently handicapped persons in certain counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

   Section 1. Chapter 706 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a

 new section to read as follows:

   1.  The taxicab authority shall adopt regulations establishing a

 program for the transportation by taxicab of elderly persons and

 permanently handicapped persons.

   2.  The program must require the administrator to establish, maintain

 and make known a telephone number for elderly persons and

 permanently handicapped persons to register complaints regarding

 transportation by taxicab.

   3.  The program must require a certificate holder to inform a person

 who requests transportation by taxicab within the area allocated to the

 certificate holder and who identifies himself as an elderly person or a

 permanently handicapped person of the:

   (a) Estimated time of arrival of the requested taxicab; and

   (b) Telephone number maintained by the administrator pursuant to

 subsection 2.

   Sec. 2.  NRS 706.881 is hereby amended to read as follows:

   706.881  1.  The provisions of NRS 706.8811 to 706.885, inclusive,

 and section 1 of this act apply to any county:

   (a) Whose population is 400,000 or more; or

   (b) For whom regulation by the taxicab authority is not required , if [its]

 the board of county commissioners of the county has enacted an ordinance

 approving the inclusion of the county within the jurisdiction of the taxicab

 authority.

   2.  Upon receipt of a certified copy of such an ordinance from a county

 for whom regulation by the taxicab authority is not required, the taxicab

 authority shall exercise its regulatory authority pursuant to NRS 706.8811

 to 706.885, inclusive, within that county.

   3.  Within any such county, the provisions of this chapter which confer

 regulatory authority over taxicab motor carriers upon the transportation

 services authority do not apply.

   Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2001.

 

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